Note: Earlier today, Jenny McCarthy was officially named as a new co-host of the popular daytime talk show The View. As many people have already noted, this is an extremely unfortunate move on ABC’s part: It’s giving the network’s

Note: Earlier today, . As many people have already noted, this is an extremely unfortunate move on ABC’s part: It’s giving the network’s imprimatur to someone who has worked, methodically and relentlessly, to undermine public health.

See bottom of post for update. On Tuesday, TLC posted “Why shouldn’t we vaccinate our children,” which was one of the all-time worst pieces written about vaccines. It had outright falsehoods and oodles of misleading

See the bottom of this post for an update on the Sun-Times‘s “proud support” of AutismOne. On Sunday, the Chicago Sun-Times published a fawning, credulous Q&A with Jenny McCarthy, who has been more responsible than

When I launched my Panic Virus blog on my own site back in December 2010, the second piece I posted was titled “The Huffington Post: Featuring bad science, facile reasoning since 2005.” The takeaway of

On Friday, public health officials in Washington State followed steps taken by Maryland last month and suspended Mark Geier’s license to practice medicine. Geier and his son David are popular in anti-vaccine circles for their